Scoring Assistant – California Teacher of English Learners
Pearson
Part-time
Remote
United States
Description
The Evaluation Systems group of Pearson offers dynamic teacher licensing and performance assessment solutions. Our custom teacher licensure testing programs are 100 percent aligned to state standards. We also provide a wide variety of teacher licensure testing services such as test development, administration, and scoring. We work in a collaborative environment and are passionate about education.
Scoring offers the opportunity to network with other professionals and stay abreast of the latest developments in your field. Scorers have a direct impact on the quality of the next generation of teachers and help to maintain professional standards. Scorers enjoy the change of pace, the mental challenge and the opportunity to give back to their educational field.
We have immediate openings for candidates to score California Teacher of English Learners (CTEL) exams for our Sacramento, California office.
Key benefits
Rate of $17.50/hour.
Recently retired and current California educators, who meet the qualifications, are encouraged to apply.
All work is conducted remotely via Teams Monday through Friday between the hours of 8:00am-4:00pm PST
Sessions last 2 days in length and occur 4 times a year.
Training and review are part of every session.
Flexibility to work scoring sessions which suit your availability.
Overall Responsibilities
Evaluates responses of teacher candidates in California.
Successfully internalizes training and scoring guide.
Participate in discussions.
Must be able to put aside personal biases and apply scoring guide according to rubric requirements.
Meets quality and productivity requirements established for the scoring program.
Engage with other scorers in consensus scoring activities.
Qualifications
Both active and recently retired educators may be eligible to score, provided they meet one of the following qualification goals.
To qualify to be a CTEL scorer, an individual must have served as a CTC-approved member of the appropriate test development or standard setting committee; or have (a) a minimum of three years of related teaching experience and (b) one of the following:
- LDS Certificate
- OR Crosscultural, Language and Academic Development (CLAD) Certificate
- OR Multiple or Single Subject Teaching Credential with an authorization to teach English Learners
- OR Multiple or Single Subject Teaching Credential with a CLAD Emphasis
- OR Master’s Degree or higher in a field related to the instruction of English Learners (e.g., Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Bilingual Education, etc.)
- OR Bilingual Certificate of Competence (BCC)
- OR Bilingual, Crosscultural, Language and Academic Development (BCLAD) Certificate
- OR Multiple or Single Subject Teaching Credential with a BCLAD Emphasis
- OR Bilingual Crosscultural Specialist Credential
NOTE: Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.